Honestly, that bit comes off almost like an insightful joke about how washed-up aging comedians try to stay relevant in 2023. “No one is laughing at my jokes. Maybe I should try saying hateful bullshit about trans people and liberals.” Just replace Jerry with Dave Chapelle or Louis CK and you’ve practically got a…

Kathleen, she gives off an attitude of almost naive innocence, which clashes so intensely with the ruthlessness of her actions.

The midwest? TV Bill is in Massachusetts, at least 10 miles west of Boston as stated in the episode.

I’m being pedantic, but fwiw the Bill and Frank sequence doesn’t happen in the midwest, it’s in New England just outside of Boston.

You do start with the thunder ball, which Marcus uses to either bean enemies in the head or choke out with the tether. I used it primarily through that game too, up until the later beat where you lose a friend. I figured that was a good time to harden him up a bit and switch up the gameplay.

It feels like they’re courting the fan-fic writers who want an edgy “adult” take on the world but also want to rp as fantasy magic schoolkids. It’s that old “Sonic should have a gun” energy.

Yeah, that’s the weird thing for me. Part of the fantasy of being evil is about flipping norms and pissing people off. It strikes me that not having people recognize evil behavior undermines the whole subversive fantasy altogether.

Fable 1 does a better job. Kill people and you get called names and treated like trash by villagers.

“Harry Potter game has no concept of morality” is the least surprising thing I’ve read all day.

So you just go and murder a whole camp one night and show up to herbology the next morning and everyone’s just okay? Fine not to have a morality system as they are rarely implemented interestingly enough to warrant their inclusion, but this will easily surpass GTA IV levels of ludonarrative dissonance. 

Yeah, I dunno. Playing as Joel spending 15 minutes trying to stealth kill every bandit is exciting and tense.

We’ve already had Joel hoisting Tess up, Ellie breaking stealth, Joel and Tess missing their first few shots against the Clickers, and Joel taking forever to reload. They’ve been alluding to the gameplay the entire time.

Naughty Dog games post-Jak have all had pretty middling-to-bad gameplay, such that I would not shed a tear if they hypothetically became a movie/TV studio.

Despite what they say, I think the author doesn’t realize this is a TV show and not an interactive game.  Nobody watching a dramatic TV show wants to see Joel craft a bomb or a shiv.  They can throw things like that in as easter eggs for players, but Joe Shmoe wants to see a story, feel for the characters, and watch…

Apparently the worlds largest flour mill is in Jakarta.

Not everything is racism guys. 

Another key change of the infection concerns the speed at which someone turns after getting bit. In the game, the revelation of Ellie’s bite and immunity prompts Tess to say “everyone turns within two days.”

Yeah that’s pretty clearly the answer. I don’t think Joel’s actually on Atkins, he’s just saying that to justify not eating the neighbor’s offering.

You ruined what was otherwise a very well written article when you jumped on the “All men are horrible and masculinity must be killed (and all woman are perfect saints)” train by suggesting that the final scene of TESS dying was done to “promote violence against woman”. If the same thing happened to a man in a tv…

*Yawns*